Helene R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Helene R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923, into a large Orthodox family. Mrs. R. remembers attending a Polish school, yet not considering herself a Pole; the German occupation in 1939; being a nurse during the typhus epidemic in the ghetto; deportations of the sick in 1941; and moving with some of her family away from the ghetto to the forest, where they lived with a group of underground Jews and acquired false papers. She recalls her arrest while acting as a courier for the Wieliczka ghetto and her and her sister's leaving the underground group and the rest of the family to work as Polish non-Jews in Poland and in Germany, leading a "double life of fear." Postwar recollections include her work in a hospital for displaced persons; her marriage to a survivor; and her present sense of who she is and where she belongs.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)